Work-Based Learning/Position

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You may wish to include your own links, follow the wikiversity guidance for doing this, or edit this page.

This is an online collaborative excercise designed to support your studies and the development of your project.

As a collaborative excercise you are requested to get others to edit the page and then you are to validate and tweak any additions using suitable APA referencing and embedded hyperlinks.

You also have the opportunity to discuss issues, obstacles and conflicts by logging on to the online service provided (PALTALK). This requires you to download some free software that has already been tried and tested.

NOTE PALTALK IS PRESENTLY UNAVAILABLE !

YOU MAY HAVE TO REQUEST A TIME SLOT TO USE THE SYSTEM.

Academic debate using paltalk.

This link will take you directly to the PALTALK online Universities room [1]

PALTTALK IS Free video chat, instant messaging and chat rooms.

Our room is available in the area called online Universities.

WORK BASED LEARNING PROJECT (TOWARDS BEST PRACTICE)

points for discussion.

 * What are current problems related to your topic ? Please identify at least two.
 * What has caused these problems to exist in the world? Please identify at least two causes for each problem.
 * What has industry done in attempting to resolve those problems?
 * What is the position of your organisation on those problems?
 * What is the possible position of other companies on those problems? 
   Consider at least two other companies.
 * How could Best Practice techniques resolve those problems? 
   Making sure that your solution(s) are consistent with your organisations position

AFTER USING THE ONLINE DEBATE OR DOING YOUR OWN RESEARCH, RETURN TO THIS PAGE AND MAKE YOU ADDITIONS.

IF YOU ARE THE FIRST THEN IT WILL BE UP TO YOU TO SET THE STANDARD !

HAVE FUN !!!!!!!

SPEND AS LONG AS YOU WANT ON IT, AND AIM TO GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF ISSUES, OBSTACLES and CONFLICTS SO THAT YOU MAKE A GOOD JOB OF YOUR PROJECT.

FURTHER DISCUSSIONS THAT MAY HELP YOU DEFINE YOUR PROBLEM

define your organisations policy question (a public concern)

 * Is it a real issue, with genuine controversy and uncertainty?
 * Can you distinctly identify two positions?
 * Are you personally interested in advocating one of these positions?
 * Is the issue narrow enough to be manageable within the timeframe given?
 * Analysing an Issue and Develop your Argument 

Provide an overview of the most current scientific understanding of the issue in question;

 * Who is your audience?
 * What do they believe?
 * Where do they stand on the issue?
 * How are their interests involved?
 * What evidence is likely to be effective with them?
 * In determining your viewpoint, ask yourself the following:
 * Is your topic interesting?
 * Can you manage the material within the specifications set by the instructor?
 * Does your topic assert something specific and propose a plan of action?
 * Do you have enough material to support your opinion? 

Examine the key trends within the issue and, where applicable, cross-links with other issues, and the significance of those trends;

Describe the efforts of governments, industry, and others in addressing the issue of concern;

Include any indicators that track key trends in the issue being addressed, making use of relevant existing national environmental indicators.